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Psychiatry Clerkship
The psychiatry clerkship is a required six-week rotation in the third year of medical school. Students rotate at a variety of sites, including the North Chicago VA Medical Center, Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center and Elgin Mental Health Center. In addition, students attend outpatient/mental health clinics at the RFUMS Health System's Behavioral Health Clinic in Vernon Hills and Ann M. Kiley Center in Waukegan.Students are supervised by both psychiatry residents and attendings. They are assigned to inpatient acute psychiatry wards, consultation psychiatry service, and outpatient mental health clinics. Students attend a full day of orientation at the university campus and then at their assigned clerkship site. Students have assigned readings, required patient interview exercises, as well as quizzes and examinations, in addition to a full day of didactic teaching during the fourth week of the rotation. At most sites, students will take two evenings on call with a resident. The majority of students will also observe electroconvulsive therapy at the North Chicago VA Medical Center. Students interested in child psychiatry will attend child psychiatry clinic at the RFUMS Health System.On the final day of the rotation, students take a USMLE-style final examination. Memo to Psychiatry Clerkship FacultyMemo to Psychiatry ResidentsThird Year Psychiatry Clerkship Objectives Course Director Lori Moss, MD lori.moss@rosalindfranklin.eduCourse Coordinator Sue Shaw susan.shaw@rosalindfranklin.edu 847-578-8722
The psychiatry clerkship is a required six-week rotation in the third year of medical school. Students rotate at a variety of sites, including the North Chicago VA Medical Center, Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center and Elgin Mental Health Center. In addition, students attend outpatient/mental health clinics at the RFUMS Health System's Behavioral Health Clinic in Vernon Hills and Ann M. Kiley Center in Waukegan.
Students are supervised by both psychiatry residents and attendings. They are assigned to inpatient acute psychiatry wards, consultation psychiatry service, and outpatient mental health clinics. Students attend a full day of orientation at the university campus and then at their assigned clerkship site. Students have assigned readings, required patient interview exercises, as well as quizzes and examinations, in addition to a full day of didactic teaching during the fourth week of the rotation. At most sites, students will take two evenings on call with a resident. The majority of students will also observe electroconvulsive therapy at the North Chicago VA Medical Center. Students interested in child psychiatry will attend child psychiatry clinic at the RFUMS Health System.
On the final day of the rotation, students take a USMLE-style final examination.
Memo to Psychiatry Clerkship Faculty
Memo to Psychiatry Residents
Third Year Psychiatry Clerkship Objectives
Course Director Lori Moss, MD lori.moss@rosalindfranklin.eduCourse Coordinator Sue Shaw susan.shaw@rosalindfranklin.edu 847-578-8722